The Week in Photos

Published
12:00 am CST, Saturday, March 7, 2015

Alton Police officer Manuael Espinoza checks on a man found lying on his back in the snow Wednesday at the corner of Spring and E. 6th streets in Alton. The man was apparently spotted by someone from nearby St. Claire’s Hospital, who called police. Police called for an ambulance and paramedics from the Alton Fire Department. The man was transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries.

Jamiya Dandridge, 1, of Alton shoves another handfull of yummy pancakes into her mouth Tuesday at the Alton IHOP restaurant on the Homer Adams Parkway. More than 1,500 stores in the chain participated in National Pancake Day in which customers could get a free stack of IHOP buttermilk pancakes and the Alton restaurant was packed Tuesday morning. Guests are asked to make a voluntary donation which will go to the local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. The Alton restaurant has been a consistent fundraiser for the annual event.

Alton Fire Dept. Capt. Kevin Clouatre, left, supervises as Engineer Donald Holliday, right, use an hydraulic rescue tool to pry open the passenger door of a Buick Lucerne to free the passenger Tuesday after it was broadsided by a Ford Escape in the intersection of Landmarks Blvd. and Henry Street in Alton. The impact knocked a rear wheel off the Lucerne and shoved it out of the intersection and between two sets of railroad tracks. Police ordered railroad traffic stopped during the rescue operation. The passenger was transported by ambulance to a local hospital.

Sundays snowfall was followed by many areas of patchy fog around the area which in turn coated plants and grasses with a heavy frost, center, as seen near a horse who was making the best of the cold weather Monday morning on Seiler Road in Godfrey. The weather continues on a roller coaster today with a high of 50 degrees but that will come with an icy mix eventually turning to rain and a chance of snow again by Wednesday.

Pojo the cat stares at neighbor Chris Love who was trying to coax the feline to come to him after it got stuck on a porch roof Thursday at 2122 Rockwell Street. Pojo is his neighbors cat. Love tried climbing on a porch railing but the feline wouldn’t come close enough to let him grab her so he asked the owner of the house Pojo was on to allow him to use the upstairs window. The cat’s owner, Chrissie Wilson, eventually had to use the same upstairs window to catch her cat which she said was scared onto the porch roof by a German shepherd.

Customers did their best at the BP station to come and go over piles of glass and two doors which flew into the store smashing shelving. In addition to the mess, three refrigerators were damaged when the truck crashed through the doors.

South Roxana teacher Janna Pitchford reacts after seeing her ponytail cut off by her husband, Tyler, Thursday at South Roxana Elementary School where physical education teacher Carol Fletcher had her head shaved for the tenth and final time in front of students. Since this was the last year for Fletcher, several teachers joined her by having their ponytails cut off in a show of support. Over the ten years, Fletcher has helped to raise $36,141 for children’s cancer research through the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.